Team Jia!

I love my Honors Forum Team (Team Jia)!!! I’m a silly person and they put up with me and for that I will be eternally grateful, haha! Yesterday during Forum, instead of our normal lecture and discussion time, we went on a SCAVENGER HUNT and being the camera whore that I am, I [...]

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Some days that could go wrong end up going so right!

Yesterday, I took the GREs. Yes, they were hell, but at least they are OVER! Since it’s computerized, I also got my scores right away for the Verbal and Math sections (although I’m still waiting on the Writing section). I got a 1320!!! It’s weird, but I did [...]

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TORTURE: more commonly known as studying for the GREs

So let me tell you a story about a girl who was good at math … I mean, really good. She placed into her advanced math classes around 6th grade and it only got better from there. By the time she finished her Junior year of high school, she was acing Calc 2 [...]

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HOMECOMING!!!

Stand up and cheer! UMBC!
Forward we go to another victory!
Retrievers be bold! We back you as we stand!
Black and Gold, the best in Maryland!
 
Rise up and sing! Stand up and ROAR!
Make echoes ring from the mountains to the shore!
Baltimore’s pride, our alma mater grand!
UMBC, the best in ANY land!
It’s HOMECOMING time!!! Well, [...]

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Quelques pensees …

Frenchville, PA … the long lost enclave of French in the United States and no one has ever cared … until now! In my FREN 410 class (La Guerre des Langues), we are studying francophone communities of North America and we all had to do presentations on a community of our choice. Silly [...]

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I’m on TV!!!!

So as you all know, I am addicted to television (I think that’s even what it says on the UMBC Bloggers page …). GUESS WHAT! I am ON TELEVISION! I was watching Colbert Report last night and THERE I WAS during the commercial break (and is anyone else totally flabbergasted by [...]

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The American Studies Association National Conference

I am OFFICIALLY a member of the American Studies Association!!! AAAAAH!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Through my American Studies departmental honors seminar, I got a chance to go to the National Conference, held in Philadelphia this year. The department paid for our membership in the ASA, our conference registration, our food, our parking, and [...]

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My Trip to the BSO

Friday night, I got to go to the BSO (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for those of you who may not have experienced the joy of the BSO yet …) and it was SO AWESOME! Every year, the Honors College hosts a few trips to the BSO and we get to buy really cheap tickets [...]

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Vive la France – The Reunion

Guess who I saw this weekend! My roommate from France!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! I haven’t seen her in over 4 months! (That’s about the same amount of time we spent in France … it’s been too long). The saddest part is that she’s over at UMCP, and yeah, yeah, we’re totally separate schools, but [...]

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Charm City

I’ve been here at UMBC, in Baltimore, for almost four years now … but today I realized how much more there was to do here! I mean, I’ve known about the Baltimore Collegetown Network and a lot of other B-more area organizations, but I guess there’s always so much to do at UMBC that [...]

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